The Carnegie Observatories

Carnegie Observatories Lunch Talks, Fall 2009 - Spring 2010

Unless otherwise noted, talks are on Fridays at 12:15PM in the conference room at 813 Santa Barbara Street.

Bring lunch.

Contact: Josh Simon, jsimon [at] obs.carnegiescience.edu



TUESDAY, Aug 18			Christopher Onken (ANU/Mt. Stromlo) Echoes of Distant Black Holes

Sep 4			Thiago Goncalves (Caltech) Ionized gas in Lyman Break analogs: probing extreme star-forming galaxies at high resolution
Sep 11			Michael Cooper (Arizona) The Evolution of Type Ia Supernovae: Insights from a Study of the Large-Scale Environments of Local Hosts
TUESDAY, Sep 15			Deokkeun An (Caltech/IPAC) New Insights into the Milky Way Galaxy
WEDNESDAY, Sep 23			Joe Palca (NPR) Science Reporting for NPR
Sep 25			Andreea Petric (IPAC) TBA
Sep 28 (MONDAY)			Matt Walker (Cambridge) TBA
THURSDAY, Oct 1			Elinor Medezinski (Tel Aviv University) The Full Strength of Cluster Lensing
Oct 9			Chun Ly (UCLA) The Universe as Viewed from Star Forming Galaxies over the Past Ten Billion Years
Oct 16			Gabe Brammer (Yale) The Dead Sequence: A Clear Bimodality in Galaxy Colors From z=0 to z=2.5
Oct 23			Mariska Kriek (Princeton) A Deep View on the Early Universe: Extreme Makeovers & Overweight Galaxies
Oct 30			Ryan Quadri (Leiden) TBA
Nov 6			Subo Dong (IAS) Hunting Microlensing Planets in Chaos -- A Pseudo Observer's Perspective
THURSDAY, Nov 12			Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere (Harvard) Ly-alpha Emission from Galaxy Formation
Nov 20			Ian Roederer (Texas) Characterizing the Chemistry of the Milky Way Halo
Nov 27			Thanksgiving
Dec 4			Shannon Patel (UCSC) Density is Destiny: The Role of Environment in Building the Red-Sequence
MONDAY, Dec 7			Mark Krumholz (UCSC) The Formation of Massive Stars
Dec 11			Samuel Boissier (Marseille) Relative Frequencies of SN Types & Metallicity of the Host Galaxies
MONDAY, Jan 4			George Becker (Cambridge) New Insights into Helium Reionization from the Thermal History of the IGM
Jan 8			Desika Narayanan (CfA) The Formation and Evolution of High-Redshift Submillimeter Galaxies
Jan 15			Mark Dijkstra (CfA) Lyman Alpha Nebulae as a Signature of Cold Accretion onto Galaxies
WEDNESDAY, Jan 20			Pascale Hibon (ASU) Searching for Z≥7 Galaxies Using Narrow-Band Imaging
Jan 22			Aristotle Socrates (IAS, Princeton) The Eddington Limit in Cosmic Rays
Jan 29			Evgenya Shkolnik (DTM) The Tidal and Magnetic Influence of Hot Jupiters
WEDNESDAY Feb 3			Jordi Miralda-Escude (CfA) Physical Ideas on Quasars and the Broad Line Region
Feb 5			T.J. Cox (Carnegie Observatories) A Tidal Tale
Feb 19			Ivo Labbe (Carnegie Observatories) TBD
Feb 26			Josh Simon (Carnegie Observatories) TBD
Mar 5			Janice Lee (Carnegie Observatories) TBD
Mar 12			Jane Rigby (Carnegie Observatories) TBD